Ella S. Burch

NEWPORT NEWS — Ella Scholz Burch, 82, died on Monday, March 1, 1999. She was born in Warwick County and was a lifelong Peninsula resident.

She was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church.

Survivors include her daughter, Anne McCarthy, and her husband, Jim, of Yorktown; her son, Charles Burch, and his wife, Louise, of Yorktown; her sister, Ida Mae Swaney of Rome, N.Y.; a sister-in-law, Louise Scholz of Newport News; two grandchildren, Susan Fogleman, and her husband, Mike, and Karen Burch, all of Yorktown; and nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband, Charles H. "Pete" Burch.

The family will receive friends from 7 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, March 3, at the W.J. Smith and Son Funeral Home.

A funeral service will be held at 3 p.m. on Thursday, March 4, at the chapel of W.J. Smith and Son Funeral Home with the Rev. Tom L. Bosserman officiating. Burial will follow in Peninsula Memorial Park.

The family would like to thank Riverside Regional Hospice and St. Francis Nursing Center for their many kindnesses.